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  2. Malay Singaporeans - Wikipedia

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    A group of Malay women seated, Singapore, circa 1900. The seventeenth-century Malay chronicle, the Sejarah Melayu or Malay Annals, tells of the founding of a great trading city on the island of Temasek in 1299 AD by a prince from Palembang. Palembang was then the capital of the diminishing Srivijaya Empire.

  3. List of Malay Singaporeans - Wikipedia

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    Hadijah Rahmat: Associate Professor, PhD in Malay-Indonesian Studies from University of London; Deputy Head of Asian Languages and Culture at Nanyang Technological University; author or editor of over 40 books and chapters, numerous academic papers, two poetry books, and two children's books; specializes in Malay and Singapore Malay literature ...

  4. Che Zahara - Wikipedia

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    Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed (nicknamed Che Zahara Kaum Ibu; 1907–1962) was a Malay activist who worked towards women's and children's rights in Singapore.She was one of the first Malay women in Singapore to fight for modern women's rights, according to journalist, Hajah Halizah Mohd Som. [1] Che Zahara is the founder of the first Muslim women's welfare organization in Singapore, the Malay ...

  5. Halimah Yacob - Wikipedia

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    Halimah was sworn in as the President of Singapore on 14 September 2017 at The Istana. [59] She became Singapore's first female president and the first Malay president in 47 years. [60] In her role, she was also appointed ex officio as chancellor of both the NUS [61] and Nanyang Technological University. [62]

  6. Singaporeans - Wikipedia

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    Singapore Chinese , Malay (Southeast Asian), and Indian (South Asian) women, circa 1890. To promote racial harmony among the three races, a Racial Harmony Day has been observed every year since 1997.

  7. Asiah Aman - Wikipedia

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    Asiah's first film role was in 1948 when she sang on Malay film Chinta. She went on to perform throughout the 1950s and 1960s before retiring in 1975, working as a singing teacher from the 1970s to 1980s. For her contributions to music, she was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2016 and inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2022.

  8. Demographics of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    There are four official languages in Singapore: English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil. Malay is the symbolic national language, while English is the main working language. [9] Education in Singapore is bilingual, with English being the medium of instruction. Students are also required to learn a second language, usually Malay, Mandarin, or Tamil.

  9. Khadijah Sidek - Wikipedia

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    She joined the women's welfare group, the Indonesian and Malay Women's Assembly (HIMWIM), to agitate the liberation of Malay-Indonesian women who resided in Singapore. However, Khatijah's work with HIMWIM fell foul of the British colonial administration, and she was imprisoned under the Emergency Act between 1948 and 1950; [ 6 ] during her ...

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